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Lease to Grow Utah First
We signed a lease with a company called Grow Utah First on
10 acres of our land in Spring City. We thought it was significant that we signed it close to the summer solstice as that represents food abundance. They will be building a 16,000 sq
ft walipini developed by BYU for the Andes Mtns It is basically an earth bermed greenhouse that can be
used virtually year round to grow in. The cool thing for Safe Haven
Villages is that we get 5% of the profits
as a lease payment which will pay off our note. It will also provide
jobs for community members as they build more walipinis. They can fit
about 3\three per acre or nine total. After three years the investor
goes away and the full time growers income will double.
The purpose of Grow Utah First (a non-profit) is to go around Utah
developing this model with farmers or others with land that isn't
profitable right now, have investors build the walipinis, get re-paid
very nicely and go away. Then the growers (hopefully Safe Haven members) get 95% of the operations
profit. They get paid more than traditionally and Grow Utah First tacks
on a percentage for their administrative costs and sells to the public.
Grow Utah First sells all the produce through Farmers Markets set up in
wellness centers or pt offices etc. People join as consumers to get
fresh produce that is organic, well priced (many middle men cut out),
guaranteed and available locally. The portals as they call it (health
centers, spas, physical therapists etc etc) have more exposure to the
public for being a distribution center and can set up cooking classes, health
ideas etc to capture the public's eye to them and their services. We
think it will be a win/win for everyone involved and are excited to have
the first walipini project on our land. There is a risk it will fall
flat on its face but then we have a walipini to grow our food in so it
is all still good.
We had a Deseret News photographer journalist with us this weekend. It
will be interesting to see if they actually run a story.
Let us know if you would be interested in being one of the full time or part time growers or if you live in the greater Wasatch area if you would be interested in receiving wonderful organic produce locally.
10 acres of our land in Spring City. We thought it was significant that we signed it close to the summer solstice as that represents food abundance. They will be building a 16,000 sq
ft walipini developed by BYU for the Andes Mtns It is basically an earth bermed greenhouse that can be
used virtually year round to grow in. The cool thing for Safe Haven
Villages is that we get 5% of the profits
as a lease payment which will pay off our note. It will also provide
jobs for community members as they build more walipinis. They can fit
about 3\three per acre or nine total. After three years the investor
goes away and the full time growers income will double.
The purpose of Grow Utah First (a non-profit) is to go around Utah
developing this model with farmers or others with land that isn't
profitable right now, have investors build the walipinis, get re-paid
very nicely and go away. Then the growers (hopefully Safe Haven members) get 95% of the operations
profit. They get paid more than traditionally and Grow Utah First tacks
on a percentage for their administrative costs and sells to the public.
Grow Utah First sells all the produce through Farmers Markets set up in
wellness centers or pt offices etc. People join as consumers to get
fresh produce that is organic, well priced (many middle men cut out),
guaranteed and available locally. The portals as they call it (health
centers, spas, physical therapists etc etc) have more exposure to the
public for being a distribution center and can set up cooking classes, health
ideas etc to capture the public's eye to them and their services. We
think it will be a win/win for everyone involved and are excited to have
the first walipini project on our land. There is a risk it will fall
flat on its face but then we have a walipini to grow our food in so it
is all still good.
We had a Deseret News photographer journalist with us this weekend. It
will be interesting to see if they actually run a story.
Let us know if you would be interested in being one of the full time or part time growers or if you live in the greater Wasatch area if you would be interested in receiving wonderful organic produce locally.
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Comment by Cheri Allan on June 24, 2010 at 10:16pm -
This is exciting! I think it will benefit a lot of people!
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